Biographies of evanescent personalities are all the rage.
They are beautiful projects because they are absurd: how do you want to lay an entire book on evaporated existences?
After Jacqueline de Ribes by Dominique Bona, here is Yves Adrien by Cedric Bru.
"He aimed at presence by eclipse, posterity by absence, recognition by forgetting."
Cedric Bru juggles paradoxes to identify the mystery of the author of the three most hermetic books in the history of French rock-criticism:
Novövision
(1980),
2001: une apocalypse rock
(2000) and
F for Fantomisation
(2004) .
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Yves Adrien invented the cold aesthetics of synthetic music there.
It was beautiful, chic, snobbish, sometimes unbearable and vain.
In short: totally cult.
All his life, Yves Adrien behaved as if he had died of an overdose in the toilets of the Bains-Douches in 1982, but this dandy did not yet commit suicide.
He vanished into his mother's home or to the Seychelles, for decades, only to reappear
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